Attention! The East Europeans are coming…… November 25, 2007

Two days ago, I had written a post about the Pole who was tasered to death in Canada. That post also mentioned the immigration of Poles into Western countries. But this Guardian news story was bit of an eye opener, CLICK TO READ, ”Teachers: Help us cope with migrants”. Apparently British schools are getting bogged down by the sudden influx of East European children who speak no English and seem to ”appear from nowhere”. The schools have no staff or infrastructure to handle them. The government aid pitifully falls short of real requirements.

 

 

EU expansion in 2005 has caused this flooding of UK with immigrants from Eastern Europe. The reports note that in UK there are now:

 

 

• 12,900 children from the Czech Republic.
• 30,400 from Lithuania.
• 28,700 from Slovakia
• 170,000 from Poland

 

The biggest challenge and even threat is that they speak no English at all, they’re culturally different, and may even end up changing the whole culture of schools. I never thought it was all that big a deal. All I heard was that after the expansion of EU, UK did not want to limit immigration from Eastern Europe along with Sweden. And now this…..

 

 

 

I would be very interested to hear from readers in Sweden, Germany, France etc. if they have seen any such sudden influx of East Europeans into their country after the expansion? I never heard anything like that from Sweden. I don’t understand why everyone from the Baltic, Eastern and Central Europe is running only for British Isles? Would anybody enlighten me?

Not so polite Canadians and not so lucky Poles November 23, 2007

Finally, Canada has made a statement to the international community: ”We’re not as soft as you might think” Surely, Canada is coming of age. They may not have the courage to mess with more aggressive minorities like fundamentalist Muslims yet but they can always go for a Pole and Taser him to death. And when he falls down dying and writhing in pain the brave Canadian men of RCMP (Which Stands for ”Royal Canadian Mounted Police”, The Canadian Scotland Yard in other words) can be heard shouting war slogans and here is what they say and do, ”A voice is heard yelling, “Hit him again, hit him again.” The four officers clamber on top of him, restraining his arms and his head, as Dziekanski twitches. Finally, he is still.”



You can CLICK HERE to READ THIS STORY-”Questions arise after Polish man Tasered by Canadian Mounties dies ”- by Associated Press from Daily News which carries the account in writing and also the video of Canadian toughness.




The Poles and the one who recited Pushkin in New Zealand

Poland’s poverty has driven Poles out of Poland in search of employment all over the World especially to the rich Western European countries; Germany, UK and even Ireland. CLICK HERE to read another interesting article, ”SHOCKED TO DEATH” from The Los Angeles Times on the Polish immigrants that also mentions the Canadian hospitality. Today, The Poles work under very hard conditions, for very low wages and do jobs that no one in their ”host country” would do, certainly not for that kind of money. Just last night I left a comment on an Irishman’s blog who lives in Poland and blogs on the life in Poland. I talked about how I met a young Irish guy here in New Zealand who was on a working Holiday visa and I barraged him with questions about Ireland’s recent economic boom, the consequent flow of immigrants and Irish society’s reaction to it. Ireland has always been the nation of emigrants not immigrants.



He informed me that probably the biggest group of immigrants to Ireland is of Polish folks. Scores of them work like mules for peanuts but what is worse, large sections of Irish society resent them and even hate them for – the oft cited crime in immigrant countries- immigrants taking up their jobs. It is indeed a great irony that Irish people– in their less fortunate times– faced grave discrimination, hatred, prejudice, racism in the new lands during the time of great Irish exodus and mass immigration for better life in countries like America.

About 2 years back I met a Polish guy here in New Zealand who lived in our private student accommodation over Christmas break as the rents are cheap. He was a tall and handsome man of nearly 40 with a very warm personality but with some aggressiveness and impatience, especially when discussing something. He was educated and could talk about European history, politics and so on. He scared most people but I managed to strike friendship with him as I showed interest in knowing things about Poland.

One morning I found him in the common kitchen scrubbing the sinks and the slabs all by himself. He told me he had nothing better to do so he thought of cleaning up the really messy kitchen. He also mentioned that someone has been stealing his food and meat from the common refrigerator (a common crime). I expressed my indignation and said, this kind of thing makes one so angry. But he just smiled warmly as he scrubbed the sink, ”Oh no no…!!! So what, maybe someone needed the food. Let’s say, I donated the food. I’m a Catholic and you gotta show compassion for the needy and hungry.” Of course there were bits of sarcasm but he took it quite well and concentrated on cleaning the kitchen.

It was a warm sunny December (summertime in Southern Hemisphere) in New Zealand and the place was really peaceful as most international students (mostly Chinese) go to their homes for summer holidays. To divert his attention to pleasanter things I asked him questions about Polish and Russian culture. He seemed to know a good deal about Russia. So I asked him whether he knows anything about Alexander Pushkin. He put his scrubbing pad aside and with passionate gestures and gregariousness this gentle Pole broke into a poem by Pushkin in his booming voice. I had never seen him so happy.

It’s not the Muslims but it’s the Mexicans Stupid! And say no to Swiss Cheese. November 17, 2007

Ok, this is further progression of my blog posts that started with Mark Steyn’s Book, America Alone’s review on my blog, which as you may already know (or can know looking at the recent posts) led to further discussion/debate on Muslims, Immigration, Xenophobia and the so called conservative writers, politicians who are shouting ”deport all the illegal immigrant now!!!” slogans.

 

I also happened to see a detailed interview with Michele Malkin on C-Span, conducted by Brian Lamb. Of course, the basic points she raises are valid. Criminals (Immigrants or American born citizens) must not have the freedom to roam the streets so they can commit their horrible crimes. But Michele Malkin just like her brother in brain & spirit, Mark Steyn and other little xenophobic cry babies in Western Europe seem to link all things bad and criminal with immigrants, legal or illegal. So, Michele Malkin goes on and on and yet…. on about MUSLIM immigrants. Mark Steyn’s book too is also all about how Muslim immigrants are taking over the West.

 

But Immigration, especially into USA is hardly of made up of predominantly Muslim origins. Mexicans by far form the one big gigantic tide of immigration into America. I just read an amazing article, ”A Blended People”>> (CLICK HERE)<< from The Economist. This short article- which taught me more about Mexican immigration into America than anything I ever set my eyes upon- is a book review of ”Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America”

 

 

After reading that article, I indeed realize that the biggest immigration wave into America has always been the Mexican one and will always will be by the sheer design of God’s geography (It should serve as a lesson and an epiphany for Republican Jesus people). Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group in USA today, nudging Afro-Americans to the third place in 2001 for the first time in American history. Most of the Latinos now are well Americanized or at least well settled American citizens. This is the single most powerful phenomenon changing the American landscape for good or as some might grumble, bad.

 

 

 

Scram the Swiss Cheese– The most important point is that Immigration is America’s destiny and will always remain so. Immigration is America’s power, Immigration is America’s soul, Immigration is American history and is America’s future. This is what sets America apart from the rest of the ”immigrant countries” (with Possible exceptions of Canada and Australia) who are tiny ethnic countries and get jolted by waves of migrants, leading to mass xenophobic hysteria. This mass hysteria- much exploited by sad little political parties who have nothing original or useful to talk about- produces Michele Malkin like stupid myopic vision. I was reading another Economist article that noted how in Switzerland ***The incident happened in Italy as the comment below notes,” >>Click Here<< for related story, this was a factual error made by several related articles opened in tens of tabs of my browser, but the argument stands, unaltered, read my response to the comment below*** when a Romanian gypsy raped and murdered a Swiss (read Italian) woman the Swiss (read Italian) masses demanded deportation of all Romanians from Switzerland (read Italy). I mean, crime is bad but irrational panic is well, irrational. ***Further Note: I have just discovered how that factual mistake was made, I was actually reading this article as well ”Fear of foreigners- Denmark and the far right” (CLICK HERE). In this article there is a passing mention of the rise of anti-immigration right wing parties in other parts of Europe. Switzerland gets a special mention, and so does Italy in the very next paragraph. As I mentioned, my point really was how right wing elements exploit a situation and this is very much same all over Western Europe today from Denmark, Switzerland, Austria to Italy. In any case, if my remarks on Switzerland’s xenophobia sounded very unwarranted, here is what the above on Danish elections article (dated November 17) says about modern Switzerland:

 

 

 

 

 

“Europe is still in a paroxysm of anti-immigration anxiety, if not downright hostility. Last month the Swiss People’s Party won the best result of any Swiss party since 1919, with a hateful campaign that included a poster of several white sheep kicking a black sheep off a field made of a Swiss flag. It also produced a video (“Heaven or Hell”) contrasting typical Swiss scenes with others of violence, drug use and foreigners. The party’s leader has promised referendums on deporting foreigners if they commit crimes (even juveniles, and the criminal’s families might be thrown out too), as well as a ban on building mosque minarets.”

 

Now, Let’s say if that rape was committed by a French Swiss in Switzerland, would there be calls for kicking out all French Swiss to France? Are there no rapists, drug dealers among the Swiss (or Italians for that matter) nationals? Or they’re all busy making Swiss Cheese, Cuckoo Clocks and providing secret banking for the Billions of $$$$$$$$ of the most corrupt third world leaders who are also mass embezzlers, murders, rapists, genocidal demons. How come for years and years Swiss nation’s morality and conscience never told them to ask their politicians and government to stop providing secret banking facilities for blood money from the third world? Once again, maybe the Swiss were too busy making cheese. Swiss hypocrisy is indeed much loftier than their Alps…

 

But America is different from these pathetic little socialist countries most of whom were happy to colonize the third world for loot when they got a chance but now want to shut their doors on the ”third world immigrants”. In contrast America still is a free world, the land of opportunity where Individual is the king. America is the new world. America absorbs new imagination, new blood and turns it into Americana.

 

 

This is what I have learned from years of reading and listening to people’s personal experiences. When people go to Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, New Zealand (I live here and know it very well) etc. they form a multi- cultural environs, clusters, groups, ethnic schools for their children, ethnic food stores, they desperately plant the seeds of their own language, culture amidst their progeny. AND before people from these aforementioned ”immigrant countries” start smiling and say, Yeah that’s right, we’re multi-cultural, let me tell you, IT IS SAD. Nothing is more depressing and puke inducing that ” LEGAL Immigrants” coming into a new country, LEGALLY and try to form foreign cultural, culinary, lingual, social ghettos completely insulated and protected from everything that belongs to their new ”home”. I often hear stories how these ”immigrants” are homesick and nostalgic about their homeland even after years of legally living, working, earning money in the new country. Their eyes fill with tears and heart with pain to remember their mother country or fatherland. Why o Why then they just can’t go back?? What stops them? It’s the MONEY right? But I am definitely digressing so I will save it for another time.

 

In contrast, the immigrants to America are most likely to get Americanized, thanks in large part to American capitalism, strong emphasis on individualism and little dependence on social security (which exists in other Western countries like a crippling disease and addiction that even immigrants often get so dependent on) For these reasons, immigrants to America have to fight (work) for survival and personal gains. Sure they may get into extreme consumerism and all too but eventually they end up shaking off their cultural, language baggage because America rubs off on you too fast once you’ve reached its shores. This is the reason that even Latinos’ kids shed the language of the countries of their origin and speak English as their first, if not their only language. Not so with other ”multi-cultural” countries. I have noticed that the 2nd and sometimes even 3rd generation immigrants retaining their tribal ties as evident in many European countries, Germany (The Turks) UK and even in Canada and Australia, NZ too.

 

 

Let’s end this post with Illegal Immigration. It’s easy for people like Michele Malkin to scream at the ”illegals” because she happened to be the kid of parents who came to America ”legally”. I’m sure Filipinos immigrants do form huge number of ”illegals” all over the world, including the US. The truth is ”legal” immigration is simply impossible to match the real human impulse to migrate to other lands for better life. Most people won’t wait for years for their applications to be accepted (or rejected after years of ”being processed”) Vikings never applied for Visas, if you reflect on it. Even during the age of colonialism European traders never applied for business visas or competed with each other as per the principles of free and fair trade. They brought military, guns and canons with them. They slaughtered everyone who did not give them entry or visa. Today’s illegal immigrants seem much more civilized to me, they meekly enter a rich country and work their butt off for years in modern day slavery mode without any rights or protections or security available to native nationals.

 

 

And there will always be unskilled migrants who WILL NEVER be able to migrate legally. BUT THEY ARE NEEDED. Legal immigration proponents say, ”only skilled migrants” are needed in America. They all forget in the old times most migrants (their own forefathers) who came from Europe to North America were mostly unskilled immigrants. They sailed to North America from Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Poland and every other God-forsaken land in Europe. But now people would say, ”The times are different today. We need only skilled immigrants” But this is not so. Middle class Americans may not like poor ”wetbacks” but the economy and businesses need them for their very survival as another Economist article >>>>>‘‘Illegal but Useful- Where would Arkansas be without immigrants?’<<<<<reports.

 

 

Tons of such examples can be drawn from several different American states. For these very reasons, I personally support amnesty to long settled immigrants. Because they’ve certainly not been here for years by stealing food, raping women, mugging people on the streets. They’ve survived and supported their families by very hard work, working very long hours and doing the most needed rugged jobs that Americans won’t do. And in so doing these immigrants have proved their mettle and usefulness to the American society, economy and Americana. They deserve amnesty and so do their children most of whom were born in America.

In the end, it’s all about human survival on both ends of the immigration bridge regardless of crying foul and playing the blame games on TV shows.

 

 Links to interesting further readings **Added on 24th of November** 

 

 1.)  **CLICK HERE TO READ** The Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein, ”My taco with Tancredo– The anti-immigration candidate is all for assimilation, but he sure loves authentic Mexican food.”

 

2.)  **CLICK HERE TO READ** The recent New York Times editorial on America’s immigration crisis, ” The Immigration Wilderness”.

Review of ”America Alone- The End of the world as we know it” by Mark Steyn October 20, 2007

 

 

 

‘**NOTE**– I noticed I became ”Reader of the day” on Mark Steyn’s website for making him reminisce his Hollinger days when despite his lack of formal education as a journalist Hollinger group launched his career because he had the foxy element that is usually good for ratings.

 

 

Anyhow, it is not about personal attacks and I want to stick to his work, in this case his book. I want to make a special mention that the ideas brought up in his book are not even original in the least. How easy it must have been to write this book… Just collect recent articles from conservative or right wing publications, read speeches, pamphlets of pathetic little right wing political parties all around Europe… and off you go stunning the world. At the back of the book Michelle Malkin (Another neurotic, xenophobic story, but we won’t go there and leave this Islamophobic Philipino-American alone…) writes, ”America Alone will open your eyes. You can’t afford to look away.” She also writes, ”Steyn strips away intellectual rust and PC rot to uncover the writing on the wall.” I think she would hit Bull’s eye if she had written, ”…to uncover the urine on the wall. And it’s his own urine.”

 

 

First of all, this mawkish rave about this book is ONLY FOUND in the so called Conservative media (or writers) who also seem to be the only ones who took care to review this book positively. The mainstream media- New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, The Guardian etc..- just ignored this book as trash (or at least I could not find any reviews by them)Mark Steyn website also mentions that Mr. Joe Lieberman is clutching this book to his chest as dearly as the holy Bible (The Old Testament only) and giving it away to all other American Senators. Funny. I guess he also has gold inscription on his copy saying, ”An idiot’s guide to become even a bigger idiot.” This all rave made me laugh so hard and it continues to do so (guess what I am doing now). As I said, these ideas have been bandied about by each and everyone for such a long time.

 

 

One of my favorite authors and THE master essayist Gore Vidal talked about this dying out and other demographics of the White race DECADES ago as passing remarks in his essays. Please read it again, DECADES AGO. But Vidal never wrote a full essay or a book on the subject because he knew that there are about a million more real alarming threats to human race, peace, prosperity and freedom that we face every day.

 

 

I wanted to write a review on this little red book (red for Republican or Red Maple Leaf ?…) on Amazon.com but they would let you write a review only if you have bought books from them. Hmmm.. So well, I am writing this review on my blog. This book is a hot best seller now and many people have gotten carried away by it. Out of 5 stars I give it 2 stars for motley of interesting facts and some humor (P.J. O’ Rourke has been doing the humorous conservative writing for Decades), the rest is fluffy cheap journalism. You may say it is FOX NEWS IN PRINT.

 

 

Many mainstream liberals have refused to discuss the book because it is simply too childishly crass. And I can see why. Mark Steyn presumes that just because he can hurl racist, sexist and cultural insults, he gets to be pro-American. Not only this book reeks of xenophobia but also notice cheap comments about ”European slatternly women” on pages 67,68. What Steyn seems to be saying is that all White women who have anything to do with Islam or Muslims are SLUTS. Also, he mentions Luxemborg as a country slightly bigger than a rec room. How would he feel if he is ridiculed with jokes about his Canadian roots (Often delightful favorite American national pastime) and also about his pseudo Frenchie connections through Quebec (he even confesses his love for French food and naked French women who are angelic as opposed to the Slatternly ones?) Bad taste. Cheap.

 

The Demographics of Europe and Muslims– Well, this seems to be the founding (read foundering) pillar of this book and Steyn has used it as an interesting scare-mongering tactic. In short, he opines, the Whites of Europe are not making enough babies whereas Muslims all over the world and in Europe are breeding like nightmarish green bunnies (i.e. green for Islam) So, he says, naturally in due time, Europe will become ”Eurabia” where Muslims will call the shots. It is such an infantile and pathetic logic. He makes Muslim birth rates sound like some kind of Mars Attacks Hollywood flick, where all these little green evil souls will take over the world like millions of Locusts devour everything in their way. Not so.

 

To begin with, I have long wondered about Europe’s falling birth rates and that is a concern, especially for Eastern Europe. But it is not some kind of demographic suicide. I believe in Western Europe it simply exists because of individual selfishness, where people want all their time, money and resources for themselves whereas in Eastern cultures people always want to make plenty of babies and also want to see their kids, grandchildren grow. Not to mention the contraceptives are not only in little supply in many poor conservative countries ( ANYWAY, NOT ALL OF THEM ARE MUSLIM COUNTRIES) but are shunned for social, religious and personal reasons. But I don’t think Europeans will just die out. As The Economist once mentioned, this greying of Europe is not a bad thing if people can have healthier older age, can delay their retirement age, stay more productive, creative and have better standard of living than those who starve in the Eastern countries and watch their tons of children starve as well (forget about proper upbringing, education etc.)

 

On the other hand I am sure, in Western Europe birth rates among Whites will pick up sometime, when they realize things are going real bad. At the moment, the Eastern Europe is a real concern but it is not that they’re indifferent to making babies but they are just very aware of the pain they would end up causing every baby that they bring into a nightmarish world they are living in now: corruption, crushing poverty, crippling violence, crime, civil wars, unemployment (all this does not encourage wise men and women to have babies). I believe- as Steyn himself notes regarding the close relationship between high birth rates and robust market economies- that when economies in these countries become better (a good possibility with EU enlargement) their birth rates will pick up.

 

Steyn sees the world population growth from a stupidly bipolar vision: Muslim and non Muslim. He totally, disregards huge populations of non Muslims in Africa, Latin and Central America, East and South East Asia and that huge country called India whose population is about 82% Hindu. Steyn also makes a stupid blanket statement in the book saying Delhi’s (India’s capital city) population itself is declining. Someone should go to Delhi and any of India’s big (or even small) cities and see for themself the truth of people inhabiting a landscape like termites do timber!!!

In any case, it is the OVER- POPULATION that kills and cripples people and turns them into insects without education, resources, skills to survive… Something, I believe West European kids will Never face. How lucky a West European kid is not to have 5 other siblings who will only make life hell for everyone. If Europe has a population growth rate of some of the tribal nations Steyn fearfully mentions, it will turn into Eurabia much sooner than low birth rates will ever cause it to, if ever. So, shut up Steyn, You’re just the Hollinger media group’s foxy bitch.

 

No special, unusual and shocking threats from Muslim immigrants–

Steyn makes a big deal about Muslim immigrants raising hell in pretty European cities and Europeans cowering in fear. Total Bull-shit.***Added on 24th November, Check this out: CLICK TO Read this Blog post, ”NOT SO DIFFERENT” from a British blogger about Muslims in London***. As for European cowering before Muslims, what about French government’s militaristic stubbornness outlawing the wearing of Muslim head-scarves in schools even when many Muslim girls themselves wish to wear them? Interestingly schoolchildren can still wear small crosses/crucifixes. No multiculturalism or Western freedom of choice there.

 

 

Of course, Muslim immigrants (like any other immigrants) may have resentment because of bad integration, racism, discrimination, NO JOBS. And yes, when things like Paris riots happen, it is sad. But is it not the same kind of thing that goes on in USA vis-a-vis its former slave populations, today known as the Black or Afro Americans? My point is that, such anti- social, destructive or criminal behavior occurs only when there are inhuman disparities and schisms in the economic and social fields. Other than that, Muslim Immigrants may not be worse than any other immigrants from non Muslim countries that refuse to integrate with their new home country even when they’re given the opportunities.

 

I think Muslim immigrants have done a marvelous job integrating within the American society. Many of them actually, came to American shores as refugees: Iraqis, Iranians, Kurds, Palestinians etc. They themselves were the victims of horrendous persecution at the hands of neurotically violent and persecutory Islamist forces in their home countries.

As for religious fundamentalism, it is bad news in any part of the world. People make fun of Muslims being opposed to any modernity and they got Amish folks at home, people make fun of Muslims for having heaps of wives and children and they forget the Mormons at home, people talk about Muslim suicide bombers and they forget about Timothy McVeigh. Besides they forget to condemn NATO bombers dropping bombs over Wedding parties in Afghanistan mistaking them for terrorists, killing innocent children, women and old men.

 

They forget, they forget, they forget. They also forget and refuse to remember that both Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were American (CIA etc.) tag team partners during The Cold War. If Cold war had lasted a bit longer than it did, you could bet your American dollar that Osama Bin Laden would get honorary American citizenship by now. But they forget and this is why Mr. Gore Vidal aptly called the USA as the ”United States of Amnesia”.

 

Please don’t get me wrong after reading this review. Though I am not American, I am pro-American. I do believe that America is the only country in the world who will carry the torch of human freedom in the world and it should. I just hate diatribe built around misinformation like Mark Steyn’s book. People like that are the ones who actually, do a great deal of harm by destroying American goodwill in the world. They also forget that all societies are not like Vietnam. You can’t bomb them and then suppose they will never seek revenge. If killing of innocent American civilians in mad terrorist attacks can enrage Americans. Why should it be assumed that American bombs that end up killing civilians anywhere in the world will stay unaccounted for?

 

 

Does an Afghani or Iraqi mother love her children any less than an American mother? Think again.

 

 

I believe the most important thing we need is tolerance (respecting as well as leaving each other alone), spread of prosperity, education, employment, trade in the Muslims countries and societies. As Steyn himself notes, Malaysia is one Muslim country that can be considered prosperous. Though in his blind- ”all Muslims are shit”- faith he gives all credit for Malaysia’s prosperity to its Chinese population. He forgets to mention that Malaysian Muslims don’t go around the world exploding bombs. So at least there are Muslim nations that do not breed terrorists. I believe it is because they’re not threatened by any foreign military or controlled by some blood sucking multi- national corporations. Their sovereignty, sense of honor and self- determination is not hurt. That I think is something that Mark Steyn should read up on. But maybe he already knows that. Maybe Western- Muslim animosity (real and imagined) is not only something he just reports on but it’s something he passionately promotes. It’s his business. It’s all about the ratings… Sad.